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Over 3000 members with diverse backgrounds and from across regions interact and provide each other with mutual support on a daily basis. They all have in common a strong interest and expertise in migration and development related issues and make up the M4D Net Community. View their profiles, contact them and start building partnerships by becoming a member!

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Migration flows impact on development in various and complex ways. Thematic e-Discussions seek to explore specific but often inter-related issues by drawing on the contributions from practitioners and experts. The responses from members are collected and summarized into a consolidated reply for internal and external audiences that have a stake in making migration work for development.

A panel of experts engage in real-time debates with the M4D members and the wider public. The topics covered are subject to the larger migration and development agenda and the results of a Live Chat feed into policy-making, training material, and larger debates at key migration and development events.

Contact the JMDI Team to receive technical support in the implementation of your M&D initiative. We will put you in touch with experts from different organizations across regions to make sure that you run your M&D project successfully!

This section of the M4D website puts at your disposal a list of organizations and networks active in the field of migration and development, including networks of local authorities, diaspora platforms and other knowledge networks of the United Nations.

Browse through a list of existing networks of local authorities according to regions and countries and start learning about their work in the field of migration and development! A picture will appearing front of the text.

This page lists platforms set up by diasporas in different regions and countries and seeks to support the M4D Net members to easily identify existing networks for partnership building and networking. Some of the listed platforms are global and facilitated by international organizations that have a mandate in the field of M&D.

About M4D Community

The Migration for Development Community of Practice is a virtual community of practitioners working on or interested in the links between migration and development.What for? Use this site to meet others working in the migration and development field, exchange ideas and form partnerships. You can follow members, comment on our recent posts and participation debates and consultations. M4D Net members are civil society organizations, diaspora groups, migrants associations, national and local authorities, UN agencies, academia, the social partners and others.

Why? Knowledge sharing becomes an essential factor for replicating best practices and forging new partnerships. Bringing together M&D practitioners through an online portal and providing them with tools that enhance dialogue and mutual support between various stakeholders is a key objective of the JMDI. Broadening our audience.The members of the JMDI’s M4D Net have constantly gained in numbers. Through this new website, the JMDI has improved the functionalities in order to better match the needs of the M4D-Net members, with a focus on those that are active at the locallevel.

This website has been produced with the assistance of the European Union and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation. The content of this website cannot be taken to reflect the views of the European Union, the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, the IOM, or the United Nations, including UNDP, UNFPA,UNHCR, UNITAR, UN WOMEN, ITC-ILO, or their member states.